MITTERRAND (François). The bee and the architect. Chronique. Paris : Flammarion, [1978]. - In-8, 212 x 155: 402 pp, (2 ff.), printed cover. Paperback. First edition of these chronicles which, without being a diary, cover the period from 1974 to 1978. The book is certainly political, but also literary, in which François Mitterrand evokes Saint-John Perse, Ségalen, Mauriac and Romain Gary. ONE OF THE 15 FIRST EXEMPLIES ON PAPIER PUR FIL DES PAPETERIES D'ARCHES, this being one of only 10 in the trade (no. 6). A very well preserved copy, despite two traces of folding on the spine and browning on the first endpaper. Provenance : JCR library, with bookplate.

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